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THE ALII HAS GONE, A. K. PELEKALUHI KAIKIOEWA KAMEHAMEHANUI

Mr. Editor of the Newspaper Kuokoa. Aloha to you:—Please be so kind as to insert in some open space in our paper, this short remembrance below for my beloved who passed over to that world.

On the morning of Tuesday, June 28 [?], 1912, the angel of death visited our beloved home in Kalihi, and took the living breath of A. K. Palekaluhi Kaikioewa Kamehamehanui, and left his earthly body here in this world, and his soul returned to the One who created it, leaving the bundle of sadness behind for us and the grandchildren, the family, the intimates, and friends to grieve over.

He was born from the loins of Mrs. Liliha Kamehamehanui and Kulinui at Waimea, Kauai, on the 1st of November, 1830, and died on June 28, 1912; therefore, he was 81 years and 6 months, and 26 days old.

He was educated at the college of Waioli, Kauai, in his youth. After his days at that school were over, he returned to live with the King Kauikeaouli; he lived with his mother until he went back to Kauai.

He married his wife, and they lived well for a great many years. He was employed as a tax assessor for ten years and then returned to Honolulu in 1887 [?] until 1881, and was the tax assessor for the district of Koolaupoko, Oahu.

In 1882, he resided with Keelikolani in Kona, and at her death in 1883, he came back to Honolulu and remained there until his recent death.

He was a native of Kauai of Manokalanipo, and a hereditary chief which all the alii knew of and also the general public was familiar with him.

He worked as a carpenter for the real estate company headed by W. C. Achi until 1903. He worked as a carpenter for America, and he was one of the carpenters when the fort at Puuloa was being built.

In 1911, he went back to live at Kahana, Koolauloa, in the month of July. From January 1912, he became ill and in March he was bedridden, and then in April he was brought back to Honolulu, and on the day shown above he died at his home in Kalihi.

He was a father for the multitudes, and with his passing, he leaves me and our child with memories of him, and grieving for him, with a sad and heavy heart.

We with grief,

MISS MARYANN K. PALEKALUHI,

MRS. MARIE K. PALEKALUHI.

Kamehameha IV Road, Kalihi.

(Kuokoa, 7/12/1912, p. 6)

UA HALA KE ALII A. K. PELEKALUHI KAIKIOEWA KAMEHAMEHANUI

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XLVIII, Helu 28, Aoao 6. Iulai 12, 1912.

Even more on Aberahama Kaikioewa Palekaluhi (if it could be read), 1912.

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THAT HIGH CHIEF OF THE LAND HAS GONE.

On Tuesday morning the merciless hand of death stretched out and took the life of that high chief, A. K. Palekaluhi at eighty-one years of life, at his residence in Kalihi. He is a true high chiefly descendant of Hawaii, of Liliha, who is of the lineage and a descendant of Kamehameha Nui, the king of Maui. His died because of the infirmities of old age.

To understand @@@@@, here is his genealogy.

In the lineage of the alii of Hawaii—Keawe, the king of Hawaii wed with Kalanikauleleiaiwi and born was Kekuiapoiwanui (f) who married [male] Kekaulike (m), the king of Maui, and born was Kamehameha Nui, the king of Maui, who married Manuhaaipo (f) and born was Kalaniuluamoku (m), who married Kualiiwahine and born was Loeauwahine (f), who married Koakanu (m) and born was Liliha (w) who married Kulinui (m) and born was A. K. Palekaluhi.

See page four.

[If you look below, most of this first column is hard to decipher, and much of the volunteer input would have likely been @@@@@ @@@@@. Hopefully people will think seriously about how much priceless information will be lost if the original newspapers are not clearly photographed before typescripts are done.]

(Kuokoa Home Rula, 5/31/1912, p. 1)

HALA IA ALII KIEKIE O KA AINA.

Kuokoa Home Rula, Buke X, Helu 22, Aoao 1. Mei 31, 1912.

THAT HIGH CHIEF OF THE LAND HAS GONE

From Page One.

In the lineage of the alii of Maui—Kaulaheanui married Kalanikauleleaiwi, his first wife, and born was Kekuiapoiwanui. Kaulaheanui married Papaikaniau, his following wife, and born was Kekaulike, the king of Maui, who married Kekuiapoiwanui (f), and born was Kamehameha Nui, who married Manuhaaipo (f) and born was Kalaniulumoku who married Keohookeuki (f), born was Koakanunui who married Loeauwahinenui (f), and born was Liliha (f), who married Kulinui (m), and born was A. Kaikioewa Palekaluhi.

At 10 o’clock this morning, was the funeral over his remains at his eternal home at the cemetery at Koula.

There were many people who joined his last procession.

[It is interesting to see how different newspapers have different information in their coverage of the same event!]

(Kuokoa Home Rula, 5/31/1912, p. 4)

MAKE IA ALII KIEKIE O KA AINA

Kuokoa Home Rula, Buke X, Helu 22, Aoao 4. Mei 31, 1912.

 

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THAT HEAVENLY ONE PASSED BY, STAGGERED AWAY,

GONE ON THAT DARK PATH OF KANE

On the morning of this past Tuesday, May 28th, the shocking news spread all over the capital of the Territory of Hawaii, that the terrifying sickle of the angel of death was stretched out and cut short the life of the High Chief Abraham Kaikioewa Palekaluhi, at eighty-one years of living on this earth. Death took him from his home in Kalihi.

He was a favorite chiefly descendant in the court of the past Kings of Hawaii, all the way until the high chiefs living now. He had many positions in the government. He was a tax assessor at one point, and a tax collector as well. He managed a bar at the corner mauka of the corner of King Street and Nuuanu Avenue. He was a skilled mechanic. He was a friend and a ally of all. He was a true believer in the Roman Catholic faith, and he was in the Republican party until his last breath. This Friday, May 31st, his remains [kino wailua] was carried to the last abode where his body would be laid.

He descended from two royal lineages, from Hawaii and from Maui.

Hawaii Island Lineage:—Keawe, the King of Hawaii, “wed” [noho] with Kalanikauleleiaiwi (f) and Kekuiapoiwanui (f) was born, who wed Kekaulike (m), the King of Maui, and Kamehameha Nui was born (which was not Kamehameha I, Ka Na’i Aupuni of Hawaii), who wed with Manuhaaipo (f) and Kalaniulumoku (m) was born, who wed Kualiiwahine (f) and born was Loeauwahine (f), who wed Koakanu (m), and Liliha (f) was born, who wed Kulinui (m) and Aberahama Kaikioewa Palekaluhi was born.

Maui Island Lineage:—Kaulaheanuikane (m), King of Maui wed [hoao] with Kalanikauleleiaiwi (f), which was his first wife, and Kekuiapoiwa (f) was born. Kaulaheanui (m) married again to Papaikaniau (f), his second wife, and born was Kekaulike (m), the King of Maui, who wed Kekuiapoiwanui (f), and born was Kamehameha Nui, who wed Manuhaaipo (f), and born was Kalaniulumoku (m), who wed Keohokeuki (f) and born was Koakanu Nui (m), who wed Loeaunui (f), and born was Liliha (f), who wed Kulinui (m), and born was Aberahama Kaikioewa Palekaluhi.

(Aloha Aina, 6/1/1912, p. 1)

AUI, NEWA'KU LA IA LANI, HALA I KE ALA POLOHIWA A KANE

Ke Aloha Aina, Buke XVI, Helu 22, Aoao 1. Iune 1, 1912.

Aberahama Kaikioewa Palekaluhi passes away, 1912.

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THAT HIGH CHIEF OF THE LAND HAS GONE.

At his residence in Kalihi, on this past Tuesday morning, A. K. Palekaluhi, one of the high chiefs of this land grew weary of this life, at 81 years of age.

A. K. Palekaluhi, who died, was a high chief, as he was a son of Liliha, a high chiefess, a descendant of Kamehameha Nui, the King of the Island of Maui. On this morning, there will be a funeral over his body from the mortuary of H. H. Williams under the administration of the Catholic faith.

While Palekaluhi was living, he always carried with him a pocket watch given to him as a present by a kaukau alii; the amazing thing about that watch was that the initials and letters of his name were the hours in place of the Roman numerals you normally see on all watches. During his youth, he had much power in politics. Greatly loved is that native chief!

[Notice how this has much more information than just what was given in the Vital Statistics column in the same issue of Kuokoa.]

(Kuokoa, 5/31/1912, p. 4)

HALA IA ALII KIEKIE O KA AINA

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XLVIII, Helu 22, Aoao 4. Mei 31, 1912.

Vital Statistics. 1912.

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MARRIAGES.

A. J. Mawae to Emily Kapaku, May 23.

Rudolph J. Berger to Nellie E. Haupu, May 25.

Sin Kui to Annie Kaai, May 26.

P. H. Mahoe to M. K. Iudo, May 27.

BIRTHS.

To Peter K. Frank and Josephine Kaeka, a son, May 8.

To John Mahunaalii and Hana Kau, a son, May 16.

To Simon Kino and Ana Feary, a son, May 21.

To Albert Bush and Maria K. Cummings, a daughter, May 22.

To Charles Kailihiwa and Emaline Wallace, a son, May 22.

To Charles Kalei and Victoria Aiu, a daughter, May 22.

To Manuel Olmos and Lizzie Woodward, a son, May 24.

To John Hoopale and Lilia Kawaa, a daughter, May 25.

To Manuel S. Andrade and Margaret Kalilikane, a son, May 28.

DEATHS.

Pahulio [?] Guerrero, on Mokauea Street, May 23.

Mrs. Kalaiheana Pauahi, on Keauhou Street, May 26.

Meheiwa Bright, on School Street, May 27.

A. K. Palekaluhi, in Kalihi, May 28.

(Kuokoa, 5/31/1912, p. 8)

MARE. / HANAU. / MAKE.

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XLVIII, Helu 22, Aoao 8. Mei 31, 1912.

M. E. Silva’s Funeral Home, 1912.

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NEW UNDERTAKING COMPANY.

On April 14th, Manuel Feli [Felip?] Aguan passed.

Mr. Loo [Lee?] Chong left this life on the 21st of April.

Mrs. Kanehailua left for the eternal world on the 3rd of November at Hamakua, Hawaii.

Therefore, bring in your donations of ten cents for the members of your Organizations who left this life, to my Business Office on Chaplain Lane, right behind Queen Emma Hall, between Nuuanu Avenue and Fort Street.

M. E. SILVA.

[This is the undertaking establishment of M. E. Silva mentioned in the previous post. See more on the interesting story of Manuel Enos Silva in “Men of Hawaii” (1917).

(Aloha Aina, 5/16/1912, p. 3)

HUI HOOLEWA HOU

Ke Aloha Aina, Buke XVI, Helu 20, Aoao 3. Mei 18, 1912.

Pauli K. Hosea Iwiula, 1912.

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My Beloved Husband Has Gone, Undoing Our Bond

PAULI K. HOSEA IWIULA.

O Kuokoa Newspaper, Aloha to you:—Please extend your patience and allow me space in one of your columns for my parcel of my parent in my youth, and perhaps many of our friends will see it, and our companions in the Lord living from where the sun rises at Kumukahi all the way to where it shimmers into the sea of Lehua.

Pauli Kaoleiokukaiakauilani Hosea Iwiula was born in Kamoiliili¹, Oahu, on the 26th of June, 1862, from the loins of Iwiula (m) and Kapolei (f); according to the history of Iwiula, he was a descendant of the chiefly family of Kamalalawalu of Maui, and of kaukau alii rank in the court of the fathers of kings [Makualii, Makua Alii], Kekuanaoa and Kanaina, and the monarchs of the time; and the line related to Pauahi Kaoleioku Hosea Iwiula’s mother, that being Kapolei, she was closely related to the chiefly blood of Kekaulike Nui of Molokai, and being that Molokai is where Kapolei (f) was born, it is believed by the locals here in Kamoiliili that Hosea Iwiula is a chief for whom this eulogy is for.

While Kapolei was young, following the death of Kahuloa, her first husband, she married the aforementioned Iwiula. At that time, Kapolei’s was regularly a singing teacher for the young chiefly women of those days. And Kamoiliili’s handsome prince and gentleman of the time was Pauli Kaoleioku, the first born of the alii Haumea of the serene lands of Ehu, the land where water lies in the face of the cloud banks [epithets for Kona, Hawaii]. And as what happens when people grow up, there is a craving for the great fish that passes before one’s eyes, and that is perhaps why Kapolei and Pauli Kaoleioku were mixed up together, and Hosea was conceived, a son from the loins of Kapolei, and thus Hosea Iwiula was said to be a child of Pauli, and an alii.

During the days when we lived as man and wife, he became a parent to me, and so also me for him. My dear husband was very skilled in singing, and it was he who always lead the Sunday School classes of Kamoiliili for almost thirty or more years, and he was the elder [luna kahiko] of the Kamoiliili Church for almost twenty-four years and also is a long-time member of the Kawaiahao Church, then he left that position in the hands of Hiram Kaaha who is still there now. Hosea was a member of the leaders of Kawaiahao Church from his branch church of Kamoiliili. During the days when he was the leader of the Sunday School for Kaawili, he assisted his Sunday School students immensely, by clothing them with their uniforms, shoes and hats; he helped the children a lot.

I was joined with him on the 16th of January, 1882, at Kamoiliili, and we had ten children, and six of them are still living: one daughter and five sons; and four of them have gone before and he has gone in search to be with them.

On Tuesday, the 25th of January, he went to Kauai for the building of the home of Sam Kaeo, the Kauai county attorney, which he would be painting; and in the last week of December, the 29th, he returned to Kamoiliili, and joined in to lead the Sunday School class of Kamoiliili at the last quarterly congregational convention of 1911, and on January 25, he went back to Nawiliwili where his job was, and there after a few weeks began a sickness in his body, and it progressed until he passed from me in that unfamiliar land, on April 29, 1912, and he and I travelled over the great Kaieie Channel for here in Honolulu aboard the Malulani on the 30th of April, and my beloved lei, my husband was left at the funeral home of M. E. Silva, and on the following Thursday, he was carried to Kamoiliili, and within this church where the two of us along with the friends of this place would always gather to worship God, his funeral service was held and he was returned to the place of all men, and the saying was fulfilled: “Man goes to his eternal home, and the spirit returns to its maker.” For “He gave and He hath taken away, blessed be the name of Jehovah.”

O Lililehua Rain of Palolo, you shall no more buffet the cheeks of my beloved; and you as well, O Kuahine Rain which treads upon the fringes of the lehua of Manoa, you will no more soak him and his lashes; O Royal Capitol of Honolulu, he shall not see your fairness; and O Shores which I was with my beloved, your rocky banks will never again be glided over by his loving feet, and O Seas of Kaalawai and Keauau where me and my loving husband were as one, you will not see him again passing by with me.

Alas, there is only love for my husband of my youth, my parent of my uneducated days. I am yours, O My Beloved, that did [lueuele?], wandering the streets in tears.

Me with sorrow,

MRS. RAHELA [Rachael] HOSEA.

Kamoiliili, May 11, 1912.

¹Kamoiliili is known today generally as Moiliili.

[I have found no other usages of the word “lueuele”. Unless the newspapers are accurately typescripted, we won’t know if lueuele is a typo, or if it is indeed a word. The more examples of usages and context found, the clearer the meaning of the word will be. Does the acceptance of inaccurate typing indicate that these words are not important?]

(Kuokoa, 5/17/1912, p. 4)

KUU ALOHA HE KANE UA HALA, UA WEHE MAI I KA MAUA PILI

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XLVIII, Helu 20, Aoao 4. Mei 17, 1912.

Shark attack, 1914.

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GRUESOME DEATH BY A SHARK

This Sunday, Mar. 1—A Japanese and his son went to pick opihi [kui opihi] on the sea cliffs of Honomu, and while they were enjoying the opihi picking, the boy slipped and fell into the ocean, and before the father could do something for the child, the boy was taken by a huge black shark.

The body of that Japanese boy was held upwards in view of the father, and when it went back down into the ocean, the waist was severed, and with the second bite of that man-eating shark, the body of that unfortunate boy was completely gone. The actions done by that niuhi to that pitiful child is truly frightening.

(Hoku o Hawaii, 3/5/1914, p. 2)

MAKE MAINOINO I KA MANO
Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Buke 8, Helu 39, Aoao 2. Maraki 5, 1914.

Vital Statistics, 1912.

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MARRIAGES.

Young Chow to Rose Kalimapehu, May 4.
Keaka [Jack] Aki to Helen Jones, May 5.
William Freeman to Emily Toomey, May 6.
Joaquin Pele Keolanui to Hatsuno Abe, May 6.
M. K. Moiha to Ida Kamaka, May 7.
Elia Kaupe to Sarah Kipu, May 7.
Daniel K. Kalauokaaeae to Agnes M. Keau, May 12.
Charles R. Fern to Elizabeth Holokai, May 13.

BIRTHS.

To S. K. Palau and Awa Haili, a daughter, April 7.
To Inoaole [Nameless] and Hattie Bell, a daughter, April 18.
To Yee Ching Sing and Pary P. Moe, a daughter, April 30.
To Kamakaikolia and Annie Kaiser, a son, May 5.
To Solomon Kueha and Helen Pahu, a daughter, May 5.
To Mr. and Mrs. Nohonahele, a daughter, May 8.
To Peter M. Naluai and Rachel E. Cummings, a daughter, May 9.
To Ah Sing and Hattie, a daughter, May 10.
To George Opulauoho and Agnes Mendiola, a daughter, May 12.
To James Kailieha and Fanny Kahuli, a daughter, May 13.
To Ahuna and Papai Hoopii, a son, May 13.
To Joe McEncore and Ellen M. Rowe, a daughter, May 13.

DEATHS.

Joseph Hu Hussey, on Muliwai Street, May 4.
Makaeha Hookuanui, on Kanoa Street, May 4.
Mikaela Kawainui, on Kaimuki Avenue, May 4.
James Kaimi, on Kalihi Street, May 5.
Kaiponohea Raymond, on Liliha Street, May 7.
Kauaua Kahulanui, on Alapai Lane, May 8.
Kaupe Kepau, on South Street, May 10.
Kelii, at Queen’s Hospital, May 10.
John Kapahee, at the stream of Waikahalulu, May 10.
Lydia K. Kamakee, on Kamehameha IV Road, May 12.
Joseph Hao, at the train depot, May 12.

(Kuokoa, 5/17/1912, p. 8)

MARE. / HANAU. / MAKE.

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XLVIII, Helu 20, Aoao 8. Mei 17, 1912.

Vital Statistics. 1912.

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MARRIAGES.

Mikaela Poai to Kalahikiola [?], April 14.
Punohu Paewa to Malie Kekua, Aprila 18.
Robert E. Faulkner to Elizabeth K. Kaleo, April 19.
Daniel B. Moeluhi to Noelo Lahaina, April 20.

BIRTHS.

To David K. Kaoo [Kaeo?] and Lucinda Wright, a daughter, April 2.
To Antone Fernandez and Mary Ah Sen, a son, April 13.
To Palimoo and Haliaka, a son, April 14.
To Charles Kauweloa and Mana Keawepoo, a daughter, April 18.
To Ku Tai and Mabel Kimona, a son, April 20.
To Edward George Glendon and Maryann Levy, a daughter, April 20.
To David K. Kaonohi and Kepookapu, a daughter, April 20.

DEATHS.

A baby of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Kaai, at Kapiolani Home, April 14.
Hoopii Pomaikai, at the Children’s Hospital, April 16.
Vivian Umi, on Morris Lane, April 14.
Mrs. Lizzie Noble, on Liliha Street, April 20.
Rebecca Heanu, at Queen’s Hospital, April 21.
Hale Kealohanui, on Kekaulike Street, April 22.
Maui Kaili, on Puohia Street, April 22.
Mrs. A. K. Keawe, on Duval Street, April 22.
Annie Kahawaii, at Moanalua, April 23.

(Kuokoa, 4/26/1912, p. 8)

MARE. / HANAU. / MAKE.

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Buke XLVIII, Helu 17, Aoao 8. Aperila 26, 1912.